2024 Crustal Deformation Modeling Workshop

2024 Crustal Deformation Modeling Workshop

June 10-14, 2024

Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO

Agenda

Preparing for the tutorials

We recommend using the PyLith tutorials and documentation available online to become familiar with PyLith before the workshop. The more familiar you become with the software, the more you learn during the two days of tutorials. There will only be small changes in PyLith between now and the workshop.

Posters and Lightning Talks

We encourage you to bring a poster and present your research. You can also present a lightning talk (3 minutes) on your poster or some "big idea" for advancing our scientific understanding of crustal deformation. Please indicate on the registration form if you plan to bring a poster and/or present a lightning talk. We will organize the poster and lightning talk sessions based on the registration information.

Tutorials

About 60% of the time will be devoted to tutorial lectures with instructors providing background information and running examples. The other 40% of the time will be devoted to "tinker time" during which participants can run the examples at their own pace, develop their own simulations, and get help from the instructors.

Tutorials will cover the use of PyLith for running simulations of crustal deformation, Gmsh for discretizing the domain, and ParaView and PyVista for visualization. All of these tools are free and open-source. There will also be discussion of other modeling tools during the science talks.

Wednesday May 29 10:00am Pacific Time (tentative): Getting Started Help Session

This online help session is intended to answer questions from users and resolve problems encountered during installation or running simple examples. The format will be an interactive Q&A session .

Monday - Tutorials 

These tutorials will provide a discussion of beginning and intermediate meshing and modeling topics. Prior to the workshop users should have installed the software and worked through some of the examples provided in the PyLith manual.

7:00am - 8:00am

Breakfast at Mines Market

8:00am - 8:15am

Introduction and overview of tutorials, Brad Aagaard

8:15am - 9:30am

PyLith v5.0, Brad Aagaard

9:30am - 9:45am

Break

9:45am - 10:45am

Static simulations without faults, Charles Williams

10:45am - 12:00pm

Group exercise

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Lunch

1:00pm - 2:30pm

Quasi-static simulations with prescribed slip, Brad Aagaard

2:30pm - 4:30pm

Group exercise

4:30pm - 5:30pm

Troubleshooting simulations, Brad Aagaard

5:30pm

Dinner on your own

Tuesday - Tutorials

These tutorials will build upon the topics discussed on Monday.

7:00am - 8:00am

Breakfast at Mines Market

8:00am - 8:05am

Overview of tutorials, Brad Aagaard

8:05am - 9:30am

Meshing Tips and Tricks, Brad Aagaard

9:30am - 11:00am

Tinker time

11:00am - 12:00pm

Quasi-static simulations with prescribed slip, Charles Williams

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Lunch

1:00pm - 2:00pm

Tinker time

2:00pm - 3:30pm

Static Green's functions, Charles Williams

3:30pm - 5:30pm

Tinker time

5:30pm

Dinner on your own

Wednesday - Science Talks and Discussions

7:00am - 8:00am

Breakfast at Mines Market

8:00am - 8:15am

Introduction and workshop overview

8:15am - 9:30am

Participant introductions

9:30am - 10:00am

Break

10:00am - 11:30am

Session I: Crustal deformation and seismic hazard assessment

• Kaj Johnson (Indian Univ.), Overview of deformation models for the 2023 US National Seismic Hazard Model and needed developments for future models (30 min + 5 min Q&A)
• Rich Briggs (US Geological Survey), Challenges in getting from plate convergence rates to subduction earthquake rates: Examples from Alaska and Puerto Rico (30 min + 5 min Q&A)
• Discussion (20 min)

11:30am - 11:45am

Airport transportation optimization (for departing)

11:45am - 12:45pm

Lunch

12:45pm - 2:00pm

Tinker time

2:00pm - 3:00pm

Lightning Talks I (3min per presenter)

3:00pm - 3:30pm

Break

3:30pm - 5:00pm

Poster Session

5:00pm

Dinner on your own

Thursday - Science Talks and Discussions

7:00am - 8:00am

Breakfast at Mines Market

8:30am - 10:00am

Session II: Fluids and faulting

• Daniel Douglas (New Mexico Tech.), Using poroelasticity to constrain hydration along outer rise faults (30 min + 5 min Q&A)
• So Ozawa (Stanford Univ.), Coupled models of earthquakes and fault zone fluid transport (30 min + 5 min Q&A)
• Discussion (20 min)

10:00am - 10:30am

Break

10:30am - 11:00am

Lightning Talks II (3min per presenter)

11:00am - 12:00pm

Poster Session

12:00pm - 12:45pm

Lunch

12:45pm - 2:00pm

Tinker time

2:00pm - 3:30pm

Session III: The seismic cycle

• Louise Maubant (Australian National Univ.), The spatio-temporal variations of plate coupling observed with geodesy: the case of the Hikurangi subduction zone (30 min + 5 min Q&A)
• Rishav Mallick (NASA JPL), A boundary element approach to viscoelastic earthquake cycles and associated inverse problems (30 min + 5 min Q&A)
• Discussion (20 min)

3:30pm - 4:00pm

Break

4:00pm - 4:30pm

Lightning Talks III (3min per presenter)

4:30pm - 5:00pm

Poster Session

5:00pm

Dinner on your own

Friday - Science Talks and Discussions 

7:00am - 8:00am

Breakfast at Mines Market

8:30am - 10:00am

Session IV: Crustal deformation from surface loading

• Grace Carlson (Univ. of California, Berkeley), Identification and separation of hydrologic signatures in geodetic datasets (30 min + 5 min Q&A)
• Matthew Swarr (Univ. of Montana), Towards simulating the ocean tidal loading response of a fully 3D Earth model using PyLith: Model implementation and initial benchmarking results (30 min + 5 min Q&A)
• Discussion (20 min)

10:00am - 10:30am

Break

10:30am - 11:15am

Modeling needs discussion

11:15am - 11:30am

Wrap-up discussion

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Lunch

1:00pm - 5:00pm

Tinker time (for those still around)